Interior colors

Brown color and its combination with other colors in the interior

brown color in the interior

Brown is the color of the earth and everything connected with it. This is the color of fertility, stability, safety and reliability of the hearth. In psychology, this color represents coziness, comfort, peace and rural life. This color in the interior by room designers is used everywhere. It, along with white and gray, is indispensable in creating a neutral, soothing atmosphere, leading to a state of peace and tranquility.

Brown has a great variety of shades - from light milk chocolate to dark tones of the bark of a deciduous tree. It is very often used in the decoration of walls and floors. Specialists find excellent design solutions combining brown tones of all elements of the room with furniture, decor and accessories. Brown is the color of conservatism and therefore it is advantageous to use it to emphasize other elements of the classic interior.

It is worth remembering that the use of brown in the interior should not contradict the laws of visualization. It, like any other dark color, visually reduces the room.Therefore, in small-sized rooms, its use must be reduced. This is especially true of the color of the walls, when painting which, an already small room, visually becomes even smaller.
For the successful use of brown in the interior, you should resort to its combination with other colors.

Pastel shades

The pastel color is warm, so using it with brown in the design of the room will give it a soft, pacifying character. Brown and pastel belong to the same color scheme, differing only in the presence of light colors. Therefore, these two colors are perfectly combined with each other, balanced complementing each other. The brown-pastel interior represents harmony, inner peace, while creating an aura of security, peace of mind, which has a beneficial effect on the internal state of people in the room.

Shades of brown in the living room

That is why the most frequent combination of these paint palettes is found in bedrooms and living rooms. These rooms, which are zones of relaxation and restoration of human vitality, express calmness, protection from external stimuli. Ideally, the use of brown and pastel colors in the interior of any room is pleasing to the eye, if you add some accents, a twist to them. An experienced designer will always be able to find the optimal solution to this issue: he will highlight the key elements of the room in pastel brown tones with the help of decor items, proper lighting or textile materials. But this must not be abused!

Flowers give freshness to the interior

The use of bright elements should not create a feeling of flatulence and cloying room.

Combination with white

White color in the interior always gives a feeling of cleanliness and freshness of the room. In combination with brown, it has a beneficial, calming effect on the psycho-emotional state of people. Therefore, a combination of brown and white is ideal for decorating a bathroom, bedroom, living room, hallway or other areas of the house.

Brown interior and bright details in the room
It is worth remembering that the use of dark brown, chocolate alone is the wrong decision! This color is very dark for this application. It will have an oppressive, overwhelming effect on the psyche of people in this room. Therefore, its use is possible with the addition of lighter colors, including white.

Walls in brown and white cabinet
The combination with white is a neutral design option of the room. To some, this palette of colors may seem boring, straightforward. To avoid this negative effect, you should add a few bright notes for the design: experiments with green, pink, purple colors are welcome.
Brown color in the bedroom

Combination with pink

The combination of brown and pink gives the room elegance, makes it warm, even cheerful. That is why the use of this combination in children's rooms is very acceptable. Pink is the color of happiness, tenderness, reverie, which harmonizes perfectly in combination with a calm and peaceful brown. The use of this palette for decorating a nursery is fundamental and very harmonious.

Pink and brown
However, with pink it is used not only in children's rooms. Decorating bedrooms with these colors will add romance to its inhabitants. The use of various shades of these colors, as well as a variety of decorative elements that emphasize certain objects, has always been widely used in the design of rooms.

Pink color in brown bedroom
Experiments with pink and brown are always fascinating for designers and true connoisseurs of the beauty of the interior: their results cannot be predicted, but they always come out worthy.Therefore, this combination can also be used when arranging a living room or in the kitchen.
Pink textile in a brown interior

Combination with purple

Quite a popular color combination of the interior of houses of recent years. It is a combination of luxury on the one hand and comfort on the other. However, do not neglect the advice of psychologists who insist that paired with brown and violet overwhelmingly affects the psyche of people. This composition sterilizes emotions, suppresses will, induces melancholy and dreary moods.

Lilac in brown design
Therefore, the interior of brown-violet tones is categorically contraindicated for creative people, strong, strong-willed individuals, since here they will have nowhere to draw energy from. The purple-brown room is likely to become a place of filling some sensual pleasures, rather than a zone of comfort and relaxation.
Purple furniture set

Combination with blue and orange

Blue and orange elements of the interior look very harmoniously against the background of light brown walls. Interestingly, the harmony in the use of these colors is achieved by the influence of their completely opposite properties. Blue is the color of coolness, suppression of emotions. Orange is, on the contrary, a source of heat, sunlight and a good festive mood. The whole secret of a successful combination of this three colors lies in the predominance of positive qualities when exposed to a person. Blue gives rigor, orange fills the room with the depth of light, and brown - fills the feeling of peace with tranquility.

Combination of orange and brown  Blue and orange combined with wood color
These colors and individually look good on a brown background, but nevertheless, it is believed that their best combination occurs in pairs.

Blue and orange in the interior of brown tones
Brown walls and orange furniture

Dark brown and green yellow

The combination of this color with green gives the senses a sense of spring, the harmony of nature. This feeling inspires optimism, and the use of various shades of green - from light green to pistachio - will give the room playfulness and rainbow.

Yellow and brown
With the transition to more yellow tones, up to golden ones, the duo of these colors will give the room warmth, sunlight. Small additions of golden tones in combination with brown will represent the luxury of the room and the refined taste of its inhabitant.

Brown sofa and yellow armchairs
The use of combinations of brown, green and yellow is possible in the design of any room: kitchen, bedroom, bathroom or living room.
Dirty yellow and brown shades

Ways to use in the interior

A huge plus of brown is its proximity to wood. Therefore, a room filled with this color will emit a source of natural, natural light. Its use may be absolutely acceptable in the interior:

  • bedrooms;
  • living room;
  • bathroom;
  • kitchens;
  • hallway.
Combination with red color
Combination with red color
Brown walls and doors
Brown walls and doors

Combination with other shades, decor elements, curtains, furniture, he will give the room an unforgettable charm with sophistication.

Bedroom

When decorating a bedroom, designers use a combination of dark and light brown shades. You can choose, depending on the wishes of the homeowner, wallpapers of various shades of brown, while placing decor items with furniture of coffee and milk tones at your discretion. But nevertheless, according to most experts, it is best to paint the walls white, and all other items brown.
Combining brown with the bedroom is best done in warm, pastel colors. It is highly undesirable to use bright, aggressive ones.
Brown bedroom

Living room

Perfectly combined in this application for the living room: white walls, brown curtains, upholstered, as well as built-in furniture, other eye-catching objects.
If dark brown wallpaper or painting in this color is used as a coating on the walls, on the contrary, in order to dilute the thickness of the interior paints, it is worth picking up additional bright objects: beige, turquoise, pink. Against the background of brown walls, a sofa with pastel-colored armchairs looks great.
Lounge from light brown to dark

Bathroom

A bathroom is a room where you can experiment with the interior. In view of the small area of ​​the room, do not resort to the design of a dark monophonic design. This will lead to a visual reduction in the already small size of the bathroom. Walls are best done in light colors, but decor, mirrors and bathroom furniture can be distinguished using brown material.
Brown Tiled Bath
It is worth remembering the specifics of the bathroom: this room is distinguished by its high humidity. Therefore, the possibility of using wood here is very difficult. This problem can easily be solved with the help of a tile decorated under a tree. Shelves or other pieces of furniture can be made of MDF material, stylized like wood.
Beige Brown Bathroom

Hallway

The use of red-brown materials in the hallway looks very organic and refined. In combination with it, beige, gray or blue color is very attractively visualized. You can use this combination with furniture and decor.
To start interior decoration with brown tones should always be considered, as well as judiciously. It is necessary to set the necessary priorities, to study all the pros and cons. You can turn to the services of professionals, because when planning the design of premises, there are rules and laws, the implementation of which is mandatory.
Spacious entrance hall
Brown is a natural color, the use of which should be metered, underestimated. When choosing the color of the interior, tastes play an important role, as well as the mood of the landlord, his expectations from the design of the room where he will live. Therefore, the use of this color in the design of residential premises is a purely personal matter, depending on the preferences of people preparing to live there.



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